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cricketers finally ended their long wait for a test victory. That is in | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Sportsday in 15 minutes, after The Papers. | :00:00. | :00:16. | |
Welcome to our look ahead at what the papers will bring us tomorrow. | :00:17. | :00:23. | |
With this, old friends, the home affairs editor from the London | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
Evening Standard, I mean all that in long`standing! LAUGHTER And Louise | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
Cooper, financial analyst. Let's look at the front pages. The FT | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
reports European businesses starting to feel the effects of sanctions on | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
Russia. The Telegraph has a story about households being forced to pay | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
higher rates of stamp duty. The Metro carries a story about a TV | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
interview where a UN official broke down in tears saying his | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
organisation was at breaking point in Gaza. The Daily Mail leads on a | :00:53. | :01:03. | |
driver who killed a man using to mobile phones at the wheel of her | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
car. The Guardian reports of the conflict in Gaza, saying the number | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
killed is now greater than in both previous rounds of fighting between | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
Israel and Hamas. The express has a story on a funding boost for the NHS | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
to help cancer, and finally the Mirror describes how a car on wealth | :01:14. | :01:15. | |
Games cyclist from Sierra Leone was held in a collision for four days | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
before being cleared because of fears about Ebola virus `` | :01:20. | :01:21. | |
Commonwealth Games cyclist. We will start with the Guardian leading with | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
Gaza, saying the death toll has passed 1400. This is a hugely | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
relevant story still, but as we have just reported, there has been | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
breaking news in the last few minutes suggesting movement towards | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
a humanitarian truce armour and hopes of a durable cease`fire. | :01:39. | :01:43. | |
Because this is very surprising, isn't it, Martin, this news, because | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
it didn't seem that either side felt inclined even to start mentioning | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
the cease`fire at the moment. No, we had a short pause before, then it | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
resumed, and the Israelis since that time have said they are determined | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
to carry on until they finish their objectives, which include destroying | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
the tunnels and stopping rocket fire. It seemed like they were | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
determined to press on pretty much at all costs. And yes, as you say, | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
suddenly we have this three`day window, apparently, where there will | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
be an attempt to negotiate, which still raises quite a lot of problems | :02:20. | :02:21. | |
potentially, but it at least gives them some time, hopefully, to try to | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
resolve the key issues. Always tempting to clutch at reasons for | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
things happening in the Middle East, but it is a dangerous thing to do. | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
It does follow the US coming out with its strongest statement yet. | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
Exactly, and I find that interesting. I was reading a piece | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
from the Israeli point of view saying it depends who criticises us, | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
whether we take notice. Clearly the White House criticism is probably | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
the most important critic of their actions from an Israeli point of | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
view. I am sorry to be a pessimist about this, but when I look at this | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
deeply devastating, horrendous humanitarian mess, I just think... I | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
don't see, over the long term, any structural improvement. Cyclic | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
thing, it goes from slightly better do is likely worst, `` sick lately. | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
But over the long term has been been any improvement? When then Nobel | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
Peace Prize is given out to both sides ten, 15, 20 years ago, yet | :03:26. | :03:30. | |
guess what, we are back to one of the biggest death tolls we have seen | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
in the entire history of the two fides. And I think also of course, | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
that very point is made, but also the Israeli have `` have stopped | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
because it becomes clear that all they are achieving, they are | :03:46. | :03:47. | |
achieving something, stopping the tunnels, I can understand why they | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
want to do that, but there is a danger that they are just hardening | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
opinion, consolidating Hamas, which actually, Hamas's power and | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
influence in the Gaza Strip, actually was under threat fairly | :04:03. | :04:04. | |
recently after the kidnappings, the fallout from that, they were looking | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
weaker, and now they seem to have been strengthened by this, and as | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
you say, from a long point of view we might get a resolution. In the | :04:12. | :04:18. | |
short`term the station hostility which would be fantastic `` | :04:19. | :04:25. | |
cessation of hostilities. It seems so far away, even to get a | :04:26. | :04:30. | |
short`term cease`fire to stick would seem almost a miracle. What I was | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
surprised that was the numbers, 1400 dead in Gaza, Palestinian officials | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
say 8200 people have been wounded. That is an extraordinarily large... | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
Almost 10,000 people. Not that many people live in Gaza and that is an | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
extraordinary amount of people. Civilians and children in | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
particular. The Palestinian authorities say 80% were civilians. | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
One thing that does have to happen of course, it is quite hard to see | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
how this will happen, is that from an Israeli point of view, some of | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
these rockets have to be stopped us well in the long term, because that | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
keeps provoking, every couple of years, these attacks and these great | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
onslaughts. It is not the first time we have seen this. It is the worst | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
one but we have seen it two years ago and previously. Moving on to the | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
FT if we can, European companies feeling Russia paying. Ox wagon | :05:26. | :05:32. | |
voicing concern occurs the sanctions over Russia and Ukraine are biting | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
`` false wagon. What has changed over the last ten or 15 years are | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
European companies doing massive amounts of business in Russia, more | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
than ever. They were all told to do business there because it has great | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
growth and they are all doing business there and now they're | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
Russian business could be taken away from them. It is not just... You | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
have BT, Rosner, a third BP's oil production, Adidas selling a lot | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
there, so many big European companies earning good profits in | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
Russia, which could be taken away. Unintended consequences sometimes of | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
sanctions. They are not necessarily unintended. They are affecting | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
companies that wouldn't be targeted in the first instance. You wonder | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
about Adidas, what is behind that, because it cannot surely be | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
oligarchs. There is a consumer boom in Russia, the greater the middle | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
classes stop Lee I understand that the sanctions do not affect every | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
person in Russia. They backed currency exchange rates. And also | :06:39. | :06:46. | |
sentiment towards Western brands. `` affect currency exchange rates. | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
Europe can't afford `` I said Europe can't afford sanctions against | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
Russia but the downing of MH17 has changed that and I now wonder how | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
much damage they are willing to do to the European economy. I think we | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
should do some damage, actually, and I am not convinced that we are doing | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
as much damage overall as... We have just come out of the Eurozone | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
crisis, it could be significant. We will have fisticuffs outside! | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
LAUGHTER. I'm supposed to be in charge but it doesn't feel like it! | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
Thank you, Martin. The Daily Mail, what a judge has been talking | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
about, in his summing up, he jailed a woman who had killed a graduate | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
using two mobile phones `` she was using two mobile phones and said the | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
use of mobile phones in cars is a plague on society. We heard last | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
week police will have the power to confiscate phones they think have | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
been part of the problem in a car crash. Yes, everyone can see when | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
they drive around or walk around, people using their phones, looking | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
at them and so on, this is a particularly horrendous case with | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
this woman appears to have been using two mobile phones in a 70 mph | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
crash. There seems to be pressure for further action. The commission | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
of the Metropolitan police has suggested six penalty points, the | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
Transport Secretary suggested he might be willing to take that up, so | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
they could be pressure for tougher action. You see at all the time. You | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
do, and what I find quite encouraging is that she has been | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
jailed for six years, because for me this is pretty much manslaughter. | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
You know it is a dangerous thing to do. She was text thing on one and | :08:26. | :08:37. | |
phoning on the other at 70 miles an hour. That truly is astounding | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
behaviour. `` text in. Let's move on to the Telegraph, millions more | :08:41. | :08:42. | |
being forced to pay higher rates of stamp duty in the last decade, a | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
booming property prices pushing more people into the higher rate of stamp | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
duty, and the stamp duty threshold have not moved up property prices | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
have, have they? Guess what, in Ostia times when the government is | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
highly indebted, they will find all kinds of ways to relieve Britons of | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
their cash `` austere times. Clearly politicians like hidden ways to | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
relieve people of their cash, and this is exactly what you would | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
expect, therefore, so they haven't increased stamp duty, and as you | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
said, the amount therefore means that it has gone up massively as | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
property prices have recovered. And there is some speculation that the | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
Tories may give a sop to us and increase it, but I wouldn't hold | :09:25. | :09:31. | |
your breath. I wonder there will be tempted to move it because it is a | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
big earner. They might try to do a little bit but it is hard to keep | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
pace with the rapid rise in house prices for one thing and secondly, | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
`` secondly, the difficulty is they are raising a lot of money out of | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
it, financial constraints continue into the next election whoever wins, | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
and where will that money come from if they do change? Louise, Martin, | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
thank you very much, shorter than normal because of this breaking | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
news, but we will return for another look at the papers at 11:25pm. I | :09:59. | :10:05. | |
must tell you the joint statement from John Kerry and Ban Ki`Moon | :10:06. | :10:07. | |
regarding the developments in the Middle East. We urge all parties to | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
act with restraint and abide by the commitments during the cease`fire. | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
It is critical to give civilians a reprieve from violence. During this | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
period civilians in Gaza will receive humanitarian relief and the | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
opportunity to carry out vital functions including burying the | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
dead, taking care of injured and restocking food. Overdue repairs on | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
infrastructure can also continue. He talks about the delegations | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
immediately going to Cairo for negotiations with the Egyptian | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
government at the invitation of Cairo, aimed at reaching a durable | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
cease`fire. They will be able to raise all issues of concerns in | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
these negotiations. That is part of the statement from Ban Ki`Moon and | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
John Kerry. Now it is time for Sportsday. | :10:53. | :11:08. | |
Hello and welcome to Sportsday. The headlines tonight: Scotland's | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
poster girl for these Commonwealth Games | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
provides a silver lining on a grey sky night at Hampden Park. | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
Three Commonwealth golds at just 16. Claudia Fragapane becomes England?s | :11:22. | :11:23. | |
latest triple gold | :11:24. | :11:24. |